From: Eric Elmore <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:11:27 +0000 That's not necessarily true - it has reached a good number of concerned parties. My own institution has included ORCID training and sign up health in our new faculty "welcome sessions" for the last couple of years. Texas A&M Univ in College Station has gone buck wild and created a whole program. That said, I think we're still building up to the critical mass tipping point on it. https://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/growing-orcids-texas-am-university-libraries https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjU5d3uzt7UAhXs7IMKHZTdCzAQFgg2MAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Foaktrust.library.tamu.edu%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F1969.1%2F152227%2FORCID%2520Final%2520Report%2520Final%2520for%2520IR%2520submission.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1%26isAllowed%3Dy&usg=AFQjCNGFIQSss1siHh4YOOv0N0Pyr3Lc6Q ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Eric Elmore | Electronic Resources Coordinator | The University of Texas at San Antonio | One UTSA Circle | San Antonio, TX. 78249-0671 | (O)210-458-4916/(F)210-458-4577 | [log in to unmask] | ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Subbiah Arunachalam <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:40:42 +0530 As a scientometricist, I often face the problem of attributing research publications to the right authors. Author names are rendered differently in different publications, e.g. John Maynard Smith or John M Smith or J M Smith or Smith JM. Also, there could be more than one John M Smith. [The same way, names of institutions are also rendered in different ways. To take care of the multiple rendering of institutional names, Clarivate's Web of Science has a field called 'Organization enhanced' or OG. Even that does not capture all name variants.] If all authors of research publications adopt ORCID iD, the name ambiguity problem can be solved. More than a year ago, I and my colleague Muthu Madhan wrote a detailed paper on this issue: [http://www.nmji.in/temp/NatlMedJIndia294227-4257534_114935.pdf] but unfortunately, it does not seem to have reached many people. Academic and research librarians could campaign for the adoption of ORCID iD by all their users. Subbiah Arunachalam http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009
